Boom was on my mind too, but having ridden that finale, I can't see him powering away from a group, it's really steep and he's a big-ish dude. Maybe if he can go solo, but that's more of a Fabian move.

Like he did to Nibali and Gerrans at MsR last year? He's human and tires like the rest of us, and it certainly doesn't help that others refuse to work with him.

Exactly and no one remembers who won the race, but will remember that Fabian kicked ass again. Who won Milan - San Remo last year again?

Any way, Strade Biance is quite luke warm race for me. Nothing happens before the last 5 km, but for some reason mamil seem to like this race. Maybe I need to wait for another 10-15 years before I "get it".

Strade Bianche is quite a classic, I'd say even more so than MSR due to the terrain they ride over. Similarly most of the other classics in the Spring are known for the types of roads they are challenged with... which would be 'classic' in the harkening back to the ol'days when there were not many paved roads, when there were no clinchers, when men would wear their tubes around their shoulders, they had only two gears, there were no electronic gismos, they didn't care about watts or power-meters, they had to kill a goat just to make a pad in their shorts, take steroids and hop on trains... oh... wait.... yeah, anyway, it's a classic.

"Bad news from our team in Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen: overnight 8 bikes, a bunch of wheels and a tool box got stolen from the truck. We're doing all we can now to get the guys on spare Trek bikes at the start of stage 2!"

That's the second team this season and it's only March 2nd. Maybe it's time to install alarms on team trucks and hire security for the parking lots?

Radioshack team truck hit by thieves last night in Belgium.That's the second team this season and it's only March 2nd. Maybe it's time to install alarms on team trucks and hire security for the parking lots?

Unfortunately it's a side-effect of the growth of the cycling industry and people willing to pay top (currency unit) for equipment.

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